Eddie Cantor in 1923 | 2 vaudeville songs
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2007
- Early sound film of comedian Eddie Cantor, using Lee De Forest's "Phonofilm" process.
Cantor went on to become the highest paid comedian of the 1930s, making several hit movies for Samuel Goldwyn (Whoopee, Palmy Days, Roman Scandals, The Kid from Spain, Kid Millions, Strike Me Pink) but was primarily a radio comedian. Today largely forgotten, unlike the Marx Brothers or Buster Keaton, but one of the biggest names in comedy in his day.
Here I am looking at this video in 2023. 100 years to this legend 🔥
the actor they casted to play Eddie Cantor in Boardwalk Empire was on point.. jeez.
SPOT on. that actor must have studied for months
my same thoughts right away
Yoo was watching the show and the first song was on in it then looked this dude’s name up found this video. Good shit.
The actor that played him on Boardwalk Empire has the voice and everything down perfectly!
i am 70 yearsold and I remember him.
What a jerk you are, Ted!
How dare you Ted . Eddie Cantor is the best !
You just just miss that days😞😭
@Ted dibiasi-JLC-Sinn What a jerk!
Can you time travel yo past??????? l born in 2004
Hey, Mister Kid Millions,
Thank you very much, sir!
Amazing to think that this footage is 95 years old!
What a treat to be able to have preserved for us clips of historical significance
That's great! Eddie Cantor is a hoot! Thanks for posting. :) It's a nice break from how crazy the world is now to think about how many things were better back then.
Wow, this is 100 years old now.
I've loved Eddie Cantor since I was a kid watching his movies on AMC with my grandma.
Thanks for this. not only is it an interesting performance from him, I didn't even know there was sound in 1923. I need to read more about this :D
It was probably not sound film (which came later) but one where they recorded the sound on records and then played it together with the film.
I remember him on the radio. He would lament his five daughters, and Bing Crosby would lament his four sons. Those were the good old days.
I've been chosen to perform Eddie Cantor songs for an upcoming Yiddish Cabaret evening here in Las Vegas. What an honor!
Frederic Kahler
One of the great stars of Vaudeville and the Follies, now forgotten. Played a big role in radio and was a successful film star and a charitable celebrity with a good feel for doing the right thing. Used to listen to his radio show.
It's funny how in description for the clip, dated from 2007 reads " Today largely forgotten" and after Boardwalk Empire everyone knows who he was.
Just listening to this makes me want to dance
ME TOO..... ESPECIALLY THE ENTERTAINING ENTERTAINMENT HE'S DOING FOR ALL OF US HE'S DOING FOR MANY OF US..... HE'S A BRIGHT HEARTED GENUINE GENIUS MAN.... HE'S BRINGING ALL THE FUN FOR MANY OF US ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LISTENING TO HIM AND WATCHING HIM HE'S BRINGING ALL THE JOY THE LAUGHTER THE DANCING HIS CURIOUSNESS.... HE'S BRINGING EVERYONE TO THE DANCE FLOOR .... HE'S EVALUATED INTO THE EXPOSURE OF SMILING AND DANCING.....🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥😄😄😂
Loved his living room performance for chalky white priceless
Boardwalk empire brought me here...and I'm thankful for it!! Amazing fellow.
brilliant, i love eddie!
What's REALLY amazing is.. WE are probably seeing AND hearing this better than they did in 1923!
Great from the first...absolutely great. His gags however lacked for verve and his head gag writer Eddie Davis used to buy gags for $5 from gagsters working in and around Tin Pan Alley. My father had an office in the Palace Theatre building and a massive gag encyclopaedia. He used to sell Eddie Davis gags for Cantor.
This song is so Funny.
@KidMillions The first song is done word for word by an actor playing Eddie in Episode 2 of Boardwalk Empire, a show about gangsters and bootleggers in 20s Atlantic City
boardwalk brought me here
Truly Amazing, thanks!
guys got some moves
Ahhh it's all a bit clearer now. Thanks for the information sir, much appreciated.
The lining up of the audio to the film is absolutely stunning, they didn’t make a successful sound recording until late 1925. So either this was later than the listed date, or they lined it up amazingly!
It's the Phonofilm sound-on-film process which was successful in early 1923. Hollywood did not adopt this technology, in stead Vitaphone by Warner Bros with better sound quality was introduced a few years later.
@@KidMillions Thank you, I’m amazed I have never heard of this with how much I have researched audio recording history.
I first became interested in Eddie Cantor after hearing a snippet of Cheer Up Smile Nertz in the movie Cinderella Man. I'm glad we can still get some video on him. He was truly a master. Thanks for posting.
Excellent!
this dude was super quirky and actually quite clever. lol, wow.
hahahahahahaha OMG 90 years after and it's still funny.
THIS IS HILARIOUS - I LOVE IT!
You titillate me... could you possibly post something so old for us? I am absolutely fascinated by this...
Yes, it is George Olsen, and the problem with all early sound films was amplification, the valves required were new and very expensive. It took RCA to commercialise Amps for theatres, and that was in 1927, when Vitaphone hit the headlines. Sound was in use in the UK at the time, but only for newsreels, and strictly in big cinema houses.
De Forrest had a UK division, bought out from him, that made hundreds of short sound films before Hollywood got into the act..
Four years before Al Jolson!
HOT DANG-I JUST HAD AN EPIPHANY!
We watched a video on hist. back in highschool, and it did the beginning of sound films....they showed a clip of this (I didn't know it was Eddie Cantor then) and I LAUGHED MY ASS OFF IN TEARS..this is great! Thanks.
I would never have known about this if it hadn't been for Boardwalk Empire :)
Thanks for the explanation.
This is an extraordinary document. Thanks so much for posting.
By the way, those interested in Cantor's amazing life story a MUST read is Herb Goldman's "Banjo Eyes," a masterpiece of research.
"The dumber they come, the more that I like 'em, 'cause the dumb ones know how to make love". Wow. lol Just....wow. lol
They had the recording technique for sound on film in 1923 (this is the Lee De Forest system) but the playback equipment and speakers were not good. We are hearing this better than it sounded back then.
My mom was about 1yo when this film was made, she having been born in '22, my dad was 6yo in '23. Less & less people from that era alive today. My dad used to tell me stories about when he was kid in 1920's and all the fun they had. But my grandfather sweated blood for the $5 a day Ford's paid. Time is a curse, where things change, not necessarily for the better but for the worse.
1:59 - "In a Morris Chair"....Who knew (except furniture aficionados) it was a "Recliner"....
Eddie Cantor, in fact ,made several fims in the early 30's for Samuel Goldwyn (for whom he was under contract), not MGM. Goldwyn had his own company by then, and distributed through United Artists, which made him a partner, with Fairbanks, Pickford, and Chaplin
Lol Boardwalk Empire. This exact song is in first or second episode.
Brett third, yes.
This man is making a very good point.
Oh wow!!! Hahaha
Feature films with sound did not occur until 1927. But sound with films had been experimented with for many years before. In 1923 the first sound shorts (sound on film) like the Eddie Cantor were being exhibited in a theatres.
2:20
"When you're around I get so EXCITED!"
hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
I'm stunned.
They had the technology in 1923, and they didn't really use it commercially until '28?
Unbelievable.
**KidMillions
tuxguy, there were successful experiments with sound from the very beginning, in Germany as early as 1905. Edison in 1913. But if the projectionist would crank the film at slightly the wrong speed the voices sounded very weird of course (a girl would open her mouth and sound like a man) and audiences would boo these "talking pictures", while nickelodeon pictures with music became very popular...
@@KidMillions
You titillate me... could you possibly post something so old for us? I am absolutely fascinated by this... Addendum:
If my father, born in 1910, saw this, or could have seen this, he would have been 13.
I feel very, very heart-warmed by this.
**Michael Neu
they thought talkies were a fad that would pass, not the end of the silent film era. Looking back, they [the silent film makers] were idiots for not investing right away.
@@Michael Neu
I agree.
I also think it's fascinating that Chaplin, for a number of years after 1928, continued to consider the "silent" film to be his medium, but he was willing to embrace "sound" insofar as it allowed him to compose and record the musical soundtracks to his films.
Technically 1927 with The Jazz Singer. Sorry, just being nit-picky!
a 1923 peace dollar bought me here
Eddie has a big comedian.
This is simply GREAT ! Most of our younger generations could learn something about music with these type of "reminders"1
That first song should be Miley Cyrus' theme song whenever they show footage of her on TV.
I'll do my best to post video coverage. That shouldn't be a problem. The show's slated for September. I'm gonna check out the song you recommended. Thank you!
Keep young & beautiful!
Frederic Kahler
Correction: The Vitaphone process was developed by Western Electric, in what is now the WestBeth apartments in NYC's West Village.
This was 1923. They practiced with sound and Film with shorts like this all the time.
He was the comedian singer at Babettes....That restaurant bar place owned by Nucky.
Thanks Boardwalk Empire!
good entertainment......without sex and foul language....
"The brainless baby keeps you down in the hole"
@@KidMillions at what time in the video does he say that? at least he is not using the "n" word -- or saying bitch or mother fucker right?
The smart girls speak Greek and another languages too, but the dumb girls only language is "poochi poochi is you"
Whoopie was Cantor's first film for Goldwyn (1929) in partnership with Florenz Ziegfeld (who subsequently was ousted) in the early two-strip technicolor. After leaving Goldwyn he made some picutres for Fox, but these were less successful
It was Western Electric, not RCA who had the lead in theatrical sound amplification.
Jay Jason did a great impersonation of Eddie; check out Jay Jason, who was the comedy star in Sugar Daddy; vaudeville in the 1980s. See him on UA-cam.
318 East 48th Street in New York (where this was filmed) is a vacant lot in 2014.
No, it's not.
Oops . . . stupid Google Street View.
+Jonathan Hochman
What is it then?
look at his suit it is the same cut as these modern suits.
which episode did he sing that song in? i remember it
Mr. Awesome, would you play something for Eddie?
Whats the name of the song at the beginning? I need to find the instrumental version.
you might be interested (tho it's very hard to hear it all) in a recording I believe in the Natl.Archives of Wm. F. Cody I think made late 1800's. I believe he's making a comment on the war with Spain. ? Not certain because it's been so long since I heard it.
yes you are
Maybe they recorded it on wax or shellac and synced it to the film, since they didn't have soundtracks in 1923.
No this was a sound-on-film process. There were a lot of experiments with sound before the "official" first talkie.
Norm brought me here
Boardwalk Empire!!
Huh. It's possible that's what's happening now with 3D pictures. Although we won't know for another ten years whether this is going to stick or not.
Haha loool@ "chalky is not impressed"
I honestly can’t see why chalky and Mr. Purnsley didn’t like him lol
Boardwalk empire brought me here-
Vaudeville stages were replaced by
silver screen theatre's. Thanks to Scorsese for the enlightenment of an age where America's growing pains
Remain in the psyche of modern society.
@aconite2b Edison did a talkie in color in 1900. It took over 20 years to perfect the technology and to get Hollywood to accept the change-
george olsen orchestra!!
the conductor must be George Olsen to whom Cantor is addressing...you can just catch the name.
any time an old white person complains about what rappers are doing with their hands when they rap, i'm just gonna show them this video
"One thing that always stands out is the extraordinary diction and the carrying power of the voice"
Indeed and before electronic age this was a must as you point out. Listening to the would be vocalists today, (and I try not to) I am struck by how often they throw away vowels and in fact whole words. It's considered "cool" but most of the time ya can't make out what they're singing anyway. Which might be a plus. Also, these old timers really understood the term, Show, in Show Business.
Something is amiss here. Kid Millions was made in 1934. I'm doubtful these songs are from it. There not on the Kid Millions soundtrack.
1923? I could have sworn this was 1926 when Warner Bros were experimenting with the Vitaphone system. I could be wrong though, the dates regarding sound invention are quite muddled considering the mutt like fashion that it eventually came to fruition. De Forest, Movietone, Edison and all that malarky.
@jaywhofan Is the message really any different from pop music today? Sure, they don't come right out and say it, but things have not really changed all that much as far as what is expected of women.
A smart girl always wants to know if you mean to wed, the dumb ones never think of looking that far ahead. LOL 😂
im disturbed as well
This is the begining of Hip Hop rapping about women and f*cking. Love this shit
How can this be 1923 when talkies were invented in 1927?
"GRUNGE" was invented by TOOTS and the NEVER-TELLS in Cleveland in 1974.
Stop projecting, he had a wife and 5 kids.
Heeheee I love the music and the dancing. I hate the philosophy.
This is the first white rapper.
and the flaming jew flames on
thumbs up if you're because of Boardwalk Empire!
There were no talkies in 1923. This had to be recorded later, at least after 1927. My guess is early '30's.
Chalky is not impressed...
Ok. So... I encounter this phenomenon often in the interwebs, primarily here on UA-cam and it's becoming rather tedious. I suppose it is better than being totally uninformed about or disinterested in things one may otherwise never take up interest in, but does anyone else get annoyed with people watching videos of old or historic cultural things whose only link to it is some very recent television series, movie, etc? In this case, Boardwalk Empire. It's very telling that these people are ignorant outside of what they watch on TV. Call me a snob but I roll my eyes. Just like watching old movies with Sir Ian McKellan and the comments are littered with young people who are in love with him, who knew of him first and primarily through his performance in the Lord of the Rings and claim how much they love him, because of that role. Really? I mean, really?
It's a good way to introduce him to a new generation, some of those people may take an interest in seeing his movies because of Boardwalk Empire... Even searching him on youtube would make the man happy I think. It's ninety years later. But to be honest his comedy movies don't hold up so well, there are better movies to discover from that era. Marx Brothers particularly in the 30s, or Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd in the silent era.
would you rather no one but you know who ian mckellan is?
CheekyinNYC You're criticising people for... having heard about things and looking them up? I don't really understand your argument here. People who don't know Eddie Cantor's life story and place in vaudeville shouldn't be allowed to comment on this video, because that promotes ignorance?
+CheekyinNYC i understand what you talkin bout, but at least they are bumping into this kind of material because of tv. they wouldn't have otherwise
+CheekyinNYC I honestly dont think Lord of the rings or tv of any matter of today and age can even place there self in or near the ranking of things like this american history do not nock it in any way none of those are qualified !!!
am I the only one who is disgusted by how this was considered entertainment?